Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22562
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Mass transport limitations of water evaporation in polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layers
Authors: Mularczyk, Adrian
Michalski, Andreas
Striednig, Michael
Herrendörfer, Robert
Schmidt, Thomas J.
Büchi, Felix N.
Eller, Jens
et. al: No
DOI: 10.3390/en14102967
10.21256/zhaw-22562
Published in: Energies
Volume(Issue): 14
Issue: 10
Page(s): 2967
Issue Date: 20-May-2021
Publisher / Ed. Institution: MDPI
ISSN: 1996-1073
Language: English
Subjects: Polymer electrolyte fuel cell; GDL; Evaporation; Diffusion
Subject (DDC): 621.3: Electrical, communications, control engineering
Abstract: Facilitating the proper handling of water is one of the main challenges to overcome when trying to improve fuel cell performance. Specifically, enhanced removal of liquid water from the porous gas diffusion layers (GDLs) holds a lot of potential, but has proven to be non-trivial. A main contributor to this removal process is the gaseous transport of water following evaporation inside the GDL or catalyst layer domain. Vapor transport is desired over liquid removal, as the liquid water takes up pore space otherwise available for reactant gas supply to the catalytically active sites and opens up the possibility to remove the waste heat of the cell by evaporative cooling concepts. To better understand evaporative water removal from fuel cells and facilitate the evaporative cooling concept developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute, the effect of gas speed (0.5–10 m/s), temperature (30–60 °C), and evaporation domain (0.8–10 mm) on the evaporation rate of water from a GDL (TGP-H-120, 10 wt% PTFE) has been investigated using an ex situ approach, combined with X-ray tomographic microscopy. An along-the-channel model showed good agreement with the measured values and was used to extrapolate the differential approach to larger domains and to investigate parameter variations that were not covered experimentally.
Further description: This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Modeling, and Optimization of Novel Fuel Cell Systems.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22562
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisational Unit: Institute of Computational Physics (ICP)
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Mularczyk, A., Michalski, A., Striednig, M., Herrendörfer, R., Schmidt, T. J., Büchi, F. N., & Eller, J. (2021). Mass transport limitations of water evaporation in polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layers. Energies, 14(10), 2967. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102967
Mularczyk, A. et al. (2021) ‘Mass transport limitations of water evaporation in polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layers’, Energies, 14(10), p. 2967. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102967.
A. Mularczyk et al., “Mass transport limitations of water evaporation in polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layers,” Energies, vol. 14, no. 10, p. 2967, May 2021, doi: 10.3390/en14102967.
MULARCZYK, Adrian, Andreas MICHALSKI, Michael STRIEDNIG, Robert HERRENDÖRFER, Thomas J. SCHMIDT, Felix N. BÜCHI und Jens ELLER, 2021. Mass transport limitations of water evaporation in polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layers. Energies. 20 Mai 2021. Bd. 14, Nr. 10, S. 2967. DOI 10.3390/en14102967
Mularczyk, Adrian, Andreas Michalski, Michael Striednig, Robert Herrendörfer, Thomas J. Schmidt, Felix N. Büchi, and Jens Eller. 2021. “Mass Transport Limitations of Water Evaporation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers.” Energies 14 (10): 2967. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102967.
Mularczyk, Adrian, et al. “Mass Transport Limitations of Water Evaporation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers.” Energies, vol. 14, no. 10, May 2021, p. 2967, https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102967.


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